Table of Contents
War and Media . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1. The Evolution of a Triangle:
Military-Media-Public . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Technology changes reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
War as media event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
2. Vietnam: A Media/Military Watershed . . . . . . . . 5
Fog, not censorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
The “Vietnam effect” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
3. Two Little Wars with Big Media Implications . . 6
Exclusion and satellites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
The Sidle Commission, Panama, and CNN . . . . 7
4. The Breakup of Yugoslavia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Selective reporting from Kosovo . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
More innovations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
5. The Gulf War of 1991 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
“Guidelines” vs. censorship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
CNN: Reporter and actor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10
Technology vs. deliberation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
Objectivity vs. patriotism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11
6. The Iraq War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
A long preamble . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12
Polls and coverage: Pro and con . . . . . . . . . . . .13
The media’s armaments race . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
“Us,” “Them,” or neither . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
The Arab perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .15
Filming prisoners and casualties . . . . . . . . . . . .16
The “embedded” and the “unilaterals” . . . . . . . .17
Internet, WWW, and online journalism . . . . . . .18
7. War Games: War as Entertainment . . . . . . . . . .19
Training to kill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
8. Children and War News . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
News and children’s fears . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Parents as news sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .21
Religion a neglected factor? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .22
Wahhabism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23
Christian Zionism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24
Appendix: On-line resources for discussing
war with children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .26
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27
Additional Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30
Featured Review: Introductions to the Work of
Walter J. Ong, S.J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .32
Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .35
Obituary: Walter J. Ong, S.J. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .42
Call for Papers: Media, Religion, and Culture . . . .43
Recommended Citation
Biernatzki, William. E. S.J.
(2003)
"War and Media,"
Communication Research Trends: Vol. 22:
No.
3, Article 1.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/crt/vol22/iss3/1